West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007-2008- Working Paper 242

Jenny Akers
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Charles Peter Timmer and Steven A. Block

No 242, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: Rice production in Africa has tended to be low-yielding, geographically dispersed, and uncompetitive against low-cost Asian imports, even when protected by high freight costs and substantial trade barriers. Skyrocketing prices in world markets in 2007-08 were a chock to African consumers, producers, and governments alike. When international rice prices were relatively low, rice imports did not pose economic or political problems for West African governments. Extremely expensive imports reversed that equation. This paper addresses the response to that reversal first by presenting a historical review of trends in the West African rice sector and, second, by assessing the effect of world rice prices on domestic prices, primarily at the consumer level. This paper has appeared as a chapter in The Rice Crisis – Markets, Policies and Food Security (FAO and Earthscan, 2010)

Keywords: rice production; Africa; world markets; rice imports; West African governments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2011-02
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